Get up to 13,750 Avios with Sainsbury’s life insurance – and a look at other insurance offers

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• TimM says:

  2 Jan2 January 05:56

  In purely terms of cost per Avios, the £5 pcm option is the best deal at 0.4p/Avios (vs. 0.425p/Avios and 0.73p/Avios for the other tiers). Sainsbury’s allow you to enter the desired monthly premium as an alternative to the desired cover, which is handy.

  • BJ says:

    2 Jan2 January 11:16

    The life cover got as high as 30k at one point in last two years I think, but you had to pick the right level to maximise the benefit as you indicate. Pet was 10k early 2022 too I think.

• Man of Kent says:

  2 Jan2 January 09:10

  I looked at Sainsbury’s Bank when renewing my motor insurance last month but they were not the cheapest or the best. Used GoCompare via BA estore for 3,500 Avios.

  • BJ says:

    2 Jan2 January 11:13

    Many just use the life and pet insurance as a means of buying avios.

• Froggitt says:

  2 Jan2 January 09:38

  20,000 Nectar points for an over 50s Life Insurance policy starting at £6 a month

  • BJ says:

    2 Jan2 January 11:11

    The one I use, and you can get bonuses on two policies per household per year. I take one level and one increasing policy each year and both post fine. Been the cheapest way to buy avios since the Nectar partnership started.

    • Axel says:

      2 Jan2 January 21:09

      The Wise purxhase route of £0.003 per avios seems to be defunct. So now looking at this life policy. How many years do you opt for in the policy?

      • Rob says:

        2 Jan2 January 21:32

        It doesn’t matter – you can cancel without penalty at any point.

  • cinereus says:

    3 Jan3 January 00:35

    Where are you seeing this?

• Peter says:

  2 Jan2 January 11:07

  Sainsbury’s Bank have also stopped offering double nectar on your shopping with car insurance. To quote:

  “From your renewal date, we’ll no longer be offering our double Nectar point promotion.

  While this offer is popular with some customers, we’re focused on investing in prices which all customers can benefit from. We’re sorry for any disappointment this may cause.

  You’ll still be able to collect Nectar points on your Sainsbury’s shopping and fuel when you use your Nectar card.”

  The double Nectar points meant that Sainsbury’s Bank were the best deal at the end of 2021 for car insurance, but the lack of the double points offer took them out of the running when it came to renewal.

  • WillPS says:

    2 Jan2 January 12:05

    How? It was worth £5 in every £1000 spent at JS supermarkets and £5 in every 1000 *litres* at filling stations.

    I can’t fathom why this would motivate anybody who had actually done the maths. If it was the cheapest option anyway then sure, why not – but a very poor reason to select an insurance provider.

• Bosniaman says:

  2 Jan2 January 17:01

  Saw this:
  Britain’s newest railway to arrive two years late as costs pile up
  Robert Lea – Industrial Editor
  Britain’s newest railway, and one of its most expensive, is to arrive two years late and 33 per cent over budget.

  The Luton Dart, or direct air-rail transit link, between Luton airport and the nearby Midland mainline railway, has the aim of transforming public transport access to the notoriously difficult-to-reach Bedfordshire hub north of London. Its planned 2021 opening was put back to last October but that was missed too and it will not now open until Easter at the earliest.

  It was originally priced up at £225 million but has suffered delays in its construction that were not helped by the pandemic, made worse by technology upgrades and topped off by a wrangle with Network Rail over revenue sharing. The cost of the project, borne by Luton borough council, the airport’s owner, has ballooned to £300 million. That means that the 1.4-mile link, which runs from newly built dedicated platforms at Luton Airport Parkway railway station up over the Chiltern escarpment before arriving under the airport terminal, will have cost nearly £130,000 per metre.

  The delays have prompted the value of the Dart project to be written down in the airport’s accounts by £184 million.

  The link is planned to run autonomous people-carrying pods using solar energy. It is supposed to replace the local bus service from the railway station to the airport, enabling those catching the fast service from London St Pancras to get from the capital to the check-in desk via a four-minute Dart transfer in little over half an hour.

  That will greatly aid Luton airport’s plan to get its numbers arriving by public transport from 14 per cent to about 45 per cent, on a par with Gatwick south of London. It is a key environmental part of Luton’s application to cement its position as London’s fourth airport by applying this year to the government for a £2.5 billion expansion from its capacity of 18 million passengers a year to 32 million, putting it closer to Stansted, 30 miles to the east.

  Graham Olver, chief executive of Luton Rising, which oversees the airport, said: “Our primary focus is safety and we have taken time to make sure we get the customer experience right.”

  • Briand says:

    2 Jan2 January 19:52

    Please post in the appropriate forum…this is to do with Sainsbury and certainly not the Luton fiasco.

• Alex says:

  3 Jan3 January 11:39

  Is the offer account based and not general? I don’t have any option in my partners section.

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